Category People
People & other gyan
So it was another training that the company asked me to attend. This one was called ‘Team building’ and I was sent off in a bus with 22 other strangers to a Place called Doddaballapur which is around 70 kms from Bangalore city. My first thought was ‘Team building’ with 22 strangers? all from different […]
A Garage And The Land Lady.
You guys might be knowing how I like my landlady. She is sweet, loving, caring, and concerned. She love her tenants just like the way she love her kids.. I won’t say the above words even if I am drunk !!!! Now to the point, we have been her tenants for almost an […]
Prices on the rise
Another price hike? The Government is meeting on Friday to discuss about a new price hike in fuel. The hike would be in the range of Rs 2 to 3. 😦 Fuel prices in karnataka are the highest in the country because of higher tax component and 5 percent entry fee. Now […]
Band BroadBand.
Back home in Kerala my Dad has applied for Broadband from BSNL, unfortunately its not yet activated and the request is still pending with the telephone exchange .They have given explanations like ‘there should be at least 30 applications’ ‘infrastructure is not ready’ etc etc. The BSNL telephone exchanges are technologically advanced ones, the […]
Weekend Escapade Part III
The Dam On the way we stopped at KRS dam, the site had a marvelous view with natural beauty and the mammoth man-made structure. Here are some photos of the machinery. On our way back to the busy life in Bangalore we stopped at Rajeev Gandhi wild Life sanctuary. Although we […]
Weekend Escapade Part II
The Plantation. The coffee plantations in Coorg mesmerize you with its aroma and splendid beauty. Being from Kerala and have stayed in the middle of a coffee plantation (in Peermade Idukku Distric, near Thekkady) for years, this experience was not new. But this brought back memories of the beautiful past. We opted for […]
Weekend Escapade Part I
The Tibetan Colony The trip to Coorg was rewarding, the climate, the people, the endless plantations and insects that crawled all over my body made me much closer to nature than never before. It gave some sort of a revelation that we are just aliens invading their space. One of our stops was at the […]
Today.
Yesterday night I was just surfing the channels, while in many the reality shows were running, in one there was Rakhi Sawant yelling. I turned up the volume to hear what she was saying. There was this news scrolling on the screen. Rakhi’s item number dropped from Krazzy 4. “Its publicity gimmick” I commented. Wife “ […]
Divorce through Video Conferencing
hmm, that sounds interesting. While there are thousands of divorces being filed in India stating reasons such as adultery, incompatibility or even that wife doesn’t cook, this was a landmark achievement for our courts. We know that Indian courts takes years to settle a case with more than fifteen hearings. However, in this case, the […]
80 Shut Downs in 18 Months
Cross posted at mutiny. 80 shutdowns in 18 months, on an average 4 every month. This figure is haunting as this is after the courts have banned bandh and ‘forceful hartals’. While the political parties have given assurances that the hartals will be peaceful and there wouldn’t be any ‘forceful’ closure of shops or disruptions […]
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